1939 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

The 1939 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 53rd staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Galway entered the championship as defending champions; however, they were beaten by Mayo in the Connacht final. Kerry were the winners.[1][2][3]

1939 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Championship details
Teams26
All-Ireland Champions
Winning teamKerry (13th win)
CaptainTom O'Connor
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing teamMeath
Provincial Champions
MunsterKerry
LeinsterMeath
UlsterCavan
ConnachtMayo
Championship statistics
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1940 →

Format

Leinster Championship format change

2 Preliminary rounds instead of usual 1. Involved were Longford, Carlow, Westmeath & Wicklow of course the winners qualified for a quarterfinal to meet the stronger teams.

Munster Championship format change

In 1939 Kerry were given a bye to the Munster final, preliminary round was just a lone match between Cork vs Waterford, the winners of the game played in the quarterfinals along with Tipperary, Limerick and Clare, the winners of the game played in a lone Semifinal. The format was previously used in 1933 and was used again in 1941.

All Ireland semifinals system

The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was run on a provincial basis as usual in every 3rd year in rotation, with the four winners from Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster advancing to the All-Ireland semi-finals. The draw for these games was as follows:

  • Munster V. Connacht
  • Ulster V. Leinster

Provincial championships

Connacht Senior Football Championship
Semifinal Final
Galway 0-03
Mayo 2-10 Mayo 2-06
Sligo 0-02
Mayo2-10 – 0-2Sligo
H Kenny (0-1), M Hannon (0-1), J Munnelly (1-3), P Moclair (1-1), T Hoban (0-4).
Attendance: 4,000
Mayo2-6 – 0-3Galway
P Flannelly (0-3), M Hannon (0-1); J Munnelly (0-1), P Moclair (2-1).
Attendance: 20,000

Leinster Senior Football Championship
Round 1 Round 2
      
Longford 0-17
4-04 Westmeath
  3-04
Carlow 2-05
Carlow 2-08
Wicklow 1-03
Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
         
Wexford 0-06
Longford 0-04
Wexford 1-07
Louth 0-07
Louth 3-04
Dublin 1-06
Wexford 2-03
Meath 2-07
Meath 1-09
Laois 1-07
Meath 2-10
Kildare 2-08
Kildare 2-11
Offaly 1-01


Longford0-17 – 4-4Westmeath
Wicklow1-3 – 2-8Carlow
Longford3-4 – 2-5Carlow
Louth3-4 – 1-6Dublin
Meath1-9 – 1-7Laois
Kildare2-11 – 1-1Offaly
M.Geraghty 1-5, T.Dalton 1-1, P.Barry 0-2, M.Brosnan, P.Waters, H.Ennis 0-1.
Referee: D Hamilton (Dublin)
Wexford0-6 – 0-4Longford
Wexford1-7 – 0-7Louth
Meath2-10 – 2-8Kildare
W.Ryan 1-1, M.Geraghty 0-3, P.Barry 1-0, P.Waters, R.Martin, M.Brosnan, T.Dalton 0-1.
Attendance: 20,000
Meath2-7 – 2-3Wexford
Tony Donnelly 0-5 (0-3f), Jim Clarke and Hugh Lynch 1-0 each, Matty Gilsenan and Jack Cummins 0-1 each Tom Roche 1-2 and Joe Smyth 1-1
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: J. Dunne (Dublin)

Munster Senior Football Championship
Preliminary round Quarterfinals Semifinal
Clare 1-08, 2-14
Limerick 2-05, 0-03
Clare 1-06
Tipperary 4-05
Tipperary 1-09
Cork 0-08 Cork 2-02
Waterford 0-07
Final
   
Kerry 2-11
Tipperary 0-04


Cork0-8 – 0-7Waterford
D. O’Connor & P. Barron (0-1), R. Harnedy (1-1), P.O’Sullivan (0-1), J. Young & R. Keily (0-2).
Clare1-8 – 2-5Limerick
Tipperary1-9 – 2-2Cork
D. Murphy & P. O’Sullivan (0-1).
Referee: S. Moynihan (K)
Clare2-14 – 0-3Limerick
Attendance: 2,000
Tipperary4-5 – 1-6Clare
Referee: S. Moynihan (K)
Kerry2-11 – 0-4Tipperary
Johnny Walsh (0-1), Tony McAuliffe (1-1), Charlie O'Sullivan (0-1), Mikey Lyne (0-3) & Murt Kelly (1-4).
Referee: D. Goode (W)

Ulster Senior Football Championship
Preliminary round
   
Down 1-06
Antrim 1-05
Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
         
 
 
Armagh 1-06, 1-06
Monaghan 1-06, 0-02
 
 
Armagh 2-04, 1-04
Cavan 2-06, 2-03
Donegal 0-06
Down 1-01
Donegal 0-04
Cavan 5-12
Cavan 4-11
Tyrone 1-02
Down1-6 – 1-5Antrim
Cavan4-11 – 1-2Tyrone
Attendance: 3,000
Donegal0-6 – 1-1Down
Magheragallon
Monaghan1-6 – 1-6Armagh
Monaghan0-2 – 1-6Armagh
Cavan5-12 – 0-4Donegal
Attendance: 8,000
Cavan2-6 – 2-4Armagh
Cavan2-3 – 1-4Armagh

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Semifinals Final
      
1M Kerry 0-04, 3-08
1C Mayo 0-04, 1-04
1M Kerry 2-05
1L Meath 2-03
1L Meath 1-09
1U Cavan 1-01
Kerry0-4 – 0-4Mayo
Sean Brosnan (0-2), Charlie O'Sullivan (0-1) & Murt Kelly (0-1). P Flannelly (0-1), J Carney (0-1) & T Hoban (0-2, one free).
Meath1-9 – 1-1Cavan
Kerry3-8 – 1-4Mayo
P. Kennedy(0-1), J. G. O'Gorman (0-2), S. Brosnan (0-1), J. Walsh (1-1), T. Landers (0-2), D. Spring (1-0) & C. O'Sullivan (1-1). H Kenny (0-1), P Laffey (0-2), J Munnelly (1-0) & T Hoban (0-1).
Main article: 1939 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
Kerry2-5 – 2-3Meath
Murt Kelly (0-2), Johnny Walsh (0-1), Dan Spring (2-1) & Tim Landers (0-1).
Attendance: 46,828
Referee: J Flaherty (Offaly)

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous
  • Meath win their second Leinster Title first since 1895.
  • Kerry are now one behind Dublin with All Ireland titles.
  • There were a number of first-time championship meetings; There were 2 first time championship meetings in the All Ireland Series at first in the semifinal stage a first meeting between Meath vs Cavan while the second was All Ireland final was the first championship meeting of Kerry vs Meath.

References
  1. "Football Results 1911 - 1940 | the Official Website of the GAA". Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 22 July 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 28 September 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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